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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the difference between your vCISO and vCIO services?
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Our service is delivered as a unified leadership resource. While both functions are critical and integrated, we manage them distinctly:
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vCIO Focus: Directing IT investments, optimizing operational efficiency, creating technology roadmaps, and budgeting. Focus: Strategy and Growth.
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vCISO Focus: Managing cybersecurity risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, developing incident response plans, and safeguarding data assets. Focus: Protection and Governance.
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Our integrated approach ensures that every strategic IT decision (vCIO) is inherently secure and compliant (vCISO).
Which service tier is right for my company?
The best tier depends primarily on your internal complexity and regulatory burden:
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Base Camp: Best for smaller, less regulated firms needing foundational policies and budget control.
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Ascent: Best for scaling companies that need a dedicated, long-term roadmap for both growth and security compliance (like preparing for SOC 2).
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Summit: Best for large, highly regulated enterprises (e.g., FinTech, Healthcare) that require weekly executive presence and continuous oversight of complex compliance mandates.
We always recommend a free strategy consultation to properly assess your needs before recommending a tier.
We already have an IT Manager/MSP. How do you fit in?
We do not replace your day-to-day operational IT team or Managed Service Provider (MSP). We are a strategic, executive resource that sits above the operational level.
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Your IT Team/MSP focuses on the tactics (fixing tickets, managing hardware, deploying patches).
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Stratos Cyber Group focuses on the strategy (setting the multi-year roadmap, defining the security budget, reporting risk to the board, making high-level technology selections).
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We manage and align your existing IT resources to ensure they are executing on the executive vision.
What is the typical contract length for your services?
Our services are designed to provide long-term strategic continuity, so they are typically structured around a 12-month or 24-month retainer agreement. This ensures enough time to fully execute strategic roadmaps, implement security programs, and measure concrete results. Short-term, project-based work (like a one-time risk audit) can be arranged separately.
What professional experience do your consultants have?
All Stratos Cyber Group consultants hold significant experience in prior executive or director-level roles. They possess key certifications such as Master's Degrees CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), ISO 27001 LA & LI (Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer) for security governance and COBIT experience for strategic IT planning. We bring years of real-world C-suite experience to your organization.
Elite Services
SDFA: Stratos Digital Frontier Assessment
A deep-dive analysis to understand your Business, Infrastructure, and Operations to identify risk and craft a custom security roadmap.
vCISO: Virtual Chief Information Security Officer
Executive-level security leadership to govern risk, ensure compliance, and build long-term organizational resilience.
